fox | being a grown-up is hard

So I am, as I've said, knitting cupcakes for the babies I'll be seeing this weekend. These will coordinate with the knitted tea set their other auntie is making for them, and be the main present for the oldest girl (with enough spares that it will be easier for her to share, which is important). But there are other kids!, and thus other presents. The second child is almost two, and gets a baby doll the way her sister got when she was born, because having one's own baby to take care of is a Thing when one finds that one is suddenly an older sibling. The third child is two weeks old, and he won't know it, but he gets a lion that is very very very soft. (His sisters got a giraffe and, I believe, an elephant or some other savannah animal. I didn't intend a theme, but there it is.)

Anyway, the reason I bring it up is that the older girls also normally get animals from me. The oldest has duck familiars and the middle one has bunnies, and I was having just an awful time trying to find a bunny for this middle child. Not a lot of stuffed animals, but what there were ran heavily to puppies and bears -- and, oddly, horsies. Who, I started to wonder, do I have to maim to find a bunny in this joint? And I'd just about given up and left the place when I remembered: they have a "seasonal" section, and it's almost Easter.

A list, then:

#1, who is almost three and a half: several cupcakes, and a Domo dressed up like a duck. (Probably like a baby chick, but it's yellow and has a beak, good enough for us.)
#2, who is almost two: a cupcake, a baby doll, and a Domo dressed up like a bunny. (Her mother loves headbands and hats and things that have ears on them, so a stuffed animal wearing such a hat will be a big hit.)
#3, who is fourteen months: this is the child of the other auntie, and is also coming to visit, and her mother doesn't know it, but I'm bringing her a cupcake and an Elmo as well, because I can't have her be the only kid not getting presents.
#4, who is two weeks: a cupcake ~~analine~~ and a lion.

I only get two and a half days there this time, instead of a week like I used to be able to spend, so I'm going to have to squeeze a lot of auntieing into a short span. Better get more knitting done!

being a grown-up is hard

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